Why Sheila Heti has kept the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols on her desk for 20 years This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and ...

Here's why. Sheila Heti on raising the 'Motherhood' question "One book I go back to is the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, which I've kept on my desk for 20 years.

The alphabet, or script, has at least 21 symbols, officials said. Some symbols look similar to the modern Latin alphabet used in English, Spanish and several other languages.

A diagram showing the alphabet symbols carved on the 2,400-year-old tablet. Photo from Joan Ferrer i Jané and the the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Uncover more archaeological finds ...